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December 15, 2007

Two weeks ago I was thinking of axing Facebook...

There's an article in this morning's edition of The Guardian that asks what's so special about Hugh MacLeod that he gets so many people asking to be his friend on Facebook, "Britain's most successful Facebooker" is the header. What an irony. Hugh's a blogger with a lot of readers. Many more than the number of Facebook friends he has, so that's why he has a lot of friends on there.

If you follow Hugh, and readers of my blog know why I do, you'll see the irony in this Guardian article.

"Watching the anti-Facebook feeding frenzy with a certain glazed, numb interest" [link]"The more apps they come out, the more you realize ALL FACEBOOK PAGES LOOK AND SOUND THE SAME." [link]

"Two weeks ago I was thinking of axing Facebook..." [link]And this last quote is a picture, so tells many words etc.

But I'm wondering about all this. Since when was having a group of virtual friends numbering in the thousands seen as normal. Real life, this isn't. That's not Hugh's fault, of course. You can see his angst in this rollercoaster. It's the way the social network is built, where the value of social photos, statuses, contact details gets ruined by the hundreds of spams, randoms and intrusive apps. Will we revert to something still social but more intimate, similar to real life. Maybe we'll cull our Facebooks. Or maybe the next big thing is around the corner.